In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

